The Brussels Post, 1891-7-10, Page 7Ly 1 0, 1891
THE BRUSSELS POST,
MO THE POEM MR 11
LieutPnant Peary's Wife an Enthusi-
astic Member of ais Exploring
Expedition to Greenland.
she Ilia littioy itettahleig ft."
tedumno lies been written on the North
1;reeld.,,,,I expedition %Odell goes one under
the 1111.Pi1404 01 the Academy. of
ticieuees, and is emu ina» ded loy Engin-
eer It. l'eary. Mr, Peary's plan im 101 ell.
LIFely 110W one, !whiell he fixed upon after
reeoneoleettnee of the Grotenlend See ill
4, 1 88(3. Ile ineans to reach the northern ter-
minus of ircenland by way of the ioleml
iee instead of toilette lig tlie coaet line, which
Itnet been the way 01 all other expeditions
thus far llis experience taught hint thee
the interior iee plateau le a smooth stn•Ince
over white' he 01411 011V01100 lie fast as he een
Flve el 011 8110 W 11110118. \ 11 010 1401111 (I tin:comer
of an Aretic region looted for 1 19 alomolotnee
of animal life, has 110011 eeleotted by him as his
hoteloputieet s 00 nonount of ite acceesibility
and. the faeilities it oilers for an es piori»g
pterty to he self.supporting,
'The Dundet, steam ovhaiere pass within It
short ilitotatete of it every year on thei t. whal-
ing voyage to Lencester Sound, mod no
eteam vesorel hoe ever faikel in its effort to
reach that loaality. Hans Hendrick, the
Esquimau who aecompunied Drs. Keno mid
010 I W110 is Dow living in God thavn,
lreenlard, has 1 ohl .N1r. Peary tItne the:
%vetoes ef 1Vintle Some! nre the great
eeel loin tin 0: groniels of the Ara ic Eighland.
les wino thot region.
Though the expedition \rill he alactnt
101 ma six tine !months the time covered by
A the sledge Mealier for attaining the 100111
omjeet et the otxpeolItteu, tloo. northern ter.
minus of treettlatel, will probably not ex•
eteel dove totoutite tof ;met :Trigg and early
summer ; the oleo:helm of tile time will loe
spent in the vieLety et 1 'hale Sound colleet•
mg Beimotille rho ern!.
if it were it, aetede to reiteh 'Whale Sound
so that the journey over the intend hoe yould
be commeneed eerie in elay al,' expedition
evould not lean 10 he IT11140111, 111nre than one
season. Seine to!' t 1,0 detaile of t.ho expedi•
lion by a tvernalt who will aemompany it may
be ot irdereet,
(1,/ 1 1.0 A', EX1'1011F1111,
A woman es a member of an Aretie ex.
peolitiou tweets at first hlush semething of ten
enomaly, and yet well inferme,1 'tureens will
pereeive that it nuty not seem promo:stern:is
under favoring coed i t toes, 11'0 nen have
in more 111011 011e 01M! 8110W11 elle:twelves
posseeeed of qualities which carried them
succesefully through privations and hard.
ships in the explore:lot) of regions more in-
fested with dangers and annoyances than
the Areties. LeOly Baket• and Mrs. }Intel)
are but two ammog earet•al women Wil0 have
passed, not intonate, but years in the ult.
known interior of Afeka.
In the Area,. regions, in more than one
instance, the wife of an English whaling
eapt lin 11E:0 Wi II ered in her lo imbued's veseel
in Arctic teatere. On the west cotto.ot of
Greenland. from Cape Potretvell to L per-
navik, are stationed Danish Armee with I
thin,. wives otnd families, living year after
year comfort and yontentment, their chief
hardooliip being their isolation. 1 hey have
:their schools and cohnrchos, and young lady
governesses go out from 101110100k to edn.
mete and Ining up tile children of the euperio I
After careful enneitieration it W118 decided
that a writer should neconipany the
North Greenland expeolition of 1 891.92.
Moat of our lady readers will probably
eeclaim in one levet 11, MS 11115'0 111001 01 my
girl friends, " What on enttlli 0011 induce
you to sacrifice yourself In this wey, and
what are yoe going te wear ?"
My answers tn the fleet have been : It ,
is no enerifice. A natural inclination to I
outotnor life and the gratification of woman s
mauled prerogative, curiosity, an interest
in the work not difficult to understand,
tuol deepened by the work of devising and
supervising the milking of many special
articles of apparel, and the pleasure of
knowing that 1 am helping my husband in
the woo•k to which he devotes himself.
Then, too, why should I not go 1 I am
stroug and healthy, considered a gond walk-
er, and enjoy " roughing it." There ere
110 real dengers, only discomforts. In the
tropics there are fevers, wild animals,
V0110111000 reptiles and poisonous iniects,
while in the Arctic reeions we have none of
these ; cold is the only discomfort which we
than have to enclute.
Here my friends may exclaim, " Don't
yott call starving real danger ? What more
real do you want '1"
Yes, but there isn't the slightest clangor
of oar (Ming either. As for " weaving,' if
you could see the boxes and boxes and bar.
rola and barrels of provisions that are being
stowed aboard the Kite for as, you might
think WO were going to Greenland for te
three years' feast.
111,10 11110410401.00.
tion 1 um being 01111 tilleitily %eked.
"11
e emniner, yt .111011', it will be
light all tho Limo, the Hun never going bulnw
hovizon, shall spend my time out of
doors 116 11111011 OH possible. I shall botanize,
sketch, take plootogtetplis of all the ourions
and pretty seenee end expect to do cow
sideraltle gitioning. There ere quentitics
of loons, eider -ducks, ptarmigan and various
kinds of 500 'AMIN. lion, 1011, 1.1101.0 110
a daily romp with my two jet !hook New.
foundland dogs, whit.11 were brought, direet
from St, oJohns, N. E., for 1110 by Coen:tin
Pike, and I will pratedse enowshoeing 111111
skier running.
During the three months when we will
have eoutiontom night 1 shall keep myeelf
busy inomaing toy hotanioal specimens,
reading and looking aft or shah thinge as lie.
long en women's depertetent. Besidee, WO
take with us Timmy gamea, including chees,
cheekers, dominos, parehosi, backgammon
a»,1 earls. We will 114" bee° "ce"eieled
tonteiettles, meth member uf the party playing
a 71,11(100111 11111010111 11101 v11'11001, "10 P101,040
to he a jolly party.
&lit ion 0 . 'coat.y's exploring party
there will be gee Lateen from the l'hiladel.
plait Aearlemy of Seienttee on board who will
see us safely established let ouithetalquartere
and then return, :topping at places of in.
Wrest along the litemiland 011010. They
w111 reech New York about the middle of
september.
The Origin of Meteorites.
In former thew, a was thought that, me.
terwitee were of tuttrestrlal engin, thrown
out by volcanoes, or condensed vapors, or
eS80 I 1110. they 11011V11 f111111 1110 III /D11,
suppoeleione de 1101 hold good whim
wet consider the 01101'11101N initial velocity,
elle great n011111(11', 1111'01'1 1011 1111(1 N61111001
Oi plictionneme For ehe
same receseite, is it Impossiltle that. they
should he fragments of a destroyed satellite
teetteecotel niomi —supposed to littem vevolved
around our pleatet paet ages, De yet thitt
thay are diminutive, independent, planets
of tem enlar system.
The hypotheeis that they are identical
wit 1. shooting stare u nil comets is the one
eceepted almost universally by soientifie
men,
Nlost important; oliseoveries tendiug to
prove tide assumption were made by Solna p -
Penile showing thatshooting stars, uswell as
meteorites, are solid bodies, wit 1011 enter the
atmosphere of our moth with an. immense
valet:ay and become luminous because of the
resistance offered by the air.
It hes been calculated that they usual lyap-
peer ta ct height, of about seventy ITliles above
the earth and disappear at a height of fifty
ales. The cause of dice e 11 imippexreatee OF ex-
thignishing is to he looked for °abet. in their
once more leaving our atmosphere, or that
they are atomized by the tierce heat gamest -
Mt thei rex tremely rapid flightand thogreat
resietance offered by the atenosphet.e. The
latter Resumption would aticonnt for the
continuous fall of 00010i0 dust upon the
trface of onto globe.
The velocity with which they enter and
ass through our atmosphere is enormone.
t malty times faster than sottnd, the
flight of a cannon bell, and even the planets
revolving around the sem
The earth travels thvough space at the
rate of I tnilos per omoend. Mercury, the
fastest planet, covers 29-87 miles per second,
while a meteorite whielt fell 11,t P11110811,
Russia, had a volueity of 33'78 miles per
second, although it had to overoome the re-
tostance of the air. In space, consequently',
it must have tt•aveled Atilt faster.
To clearly understand 1 he high degree of
veloeity implied by these figures, it is well
to add that the fastest cyclone scarcely
reaches 150 feet per eecontl, at which rate it
sorts a pressnre of about fifty pounds per
queen foot,
It now rummest to explain the itssumplion
that meteorites and shooting stars are iden-
tical, and to quote the Mots upon which this
assumption le leased.
We know that both are solid bodies which
enter oer atmosphere from without, and that
they become luminons for the same reason.
ltbuthermore, the cosmic. iron dust obsovved
in localities where Its might could nob be
doubted hart been found to have the same
ehemiettl eomposition as larger pieces of
meteoric iron seen to fall by unimpeachable
witnesses.
It cannot be denied that there is a very
greet contrast beweon the little stav that,
silently glides through spittle and noiselessly
disappears and the terrifying appeotranee of
a ball of fire, that, epproaelling with deafen.
Mg detonations, sends on us a hail of stones.
Besides the regular provisions, including
evaporated vegetables of all kinds, condens-
ed soupe and evaporated fruits, there at.e
boxes of extra niee canned froits for birth.
days, Christmas and other hnlidays. We
have some cells of plum pudding for Christ-
mas and Thanksgiving and many other nice
thiugs, even Gaudy and nuts.
Since Mr. Peary's trip to Greenland in
1880 he has made a very careful study of
the provisions and equipment necessary to
keep an exploritig party comfortable. Dm -
Mg his septum no that country 110 said there
were just two things lie wanted and did not
have—one was n, corksurew, the other a,
spade. They head the list this thne.
The question of clothing for the entire
party, pttetieularly for those making the
long sledge journey nexb spring, has been
one of much consultation of Arctic hooks,
of ransacking stores for materials, of 000.
struoting patterns rond making experimental
suits in woollen goods. The evolution of a
suit whioli, it is believed, after some possible
mod1fications suggested by the short sledge
journeys Which the memboes of the party
will necieratke this season, will combine
the elements of strength, wteemth and
lightness.
itly 01011 costumes are not direct, from
Worth, and yet I think they will create
more exeitement among the ladies of Whale
Sound than the haeulsotnest Parisian
eostmene evor did among our Incline
The Fournier tramping or skier running
suit consists of a heavy woollen, donbleo
breasted combination suit, long aleeves and
high neck. Over this is worn its duplicate,
made of red blanketing. T11011 OVOF this a
timialt or loose:coat, »11010 (Sired blanketing,
reaching just below the knee end forming
a short shirt. This has no opening except
at the nook, and is put on in the same way
that the boys pan their BM/UM, A hood
ism/melte tho neck, whiell iits closely ehont
the face, leaving only the eyes, nose and
lips to be seen. This hood is edged with
fur, its are the eleeves, making airtight
joints
notaT (tEtt occr ra'rIoNs WILL 1111.
Well, what axe pm going to do with your-
self that horioibly ligament° Once? ae.
Both specuteles, however, are but 1,18 ex-
tretnes of a chain of olosely conneetedpheno.
mono. Considering with what extreme
velocity these bodies pass through the
ittmospltero, it isnot dillicelt to comprehend
that perticles, and those having the greatest
momentum, are destroyed long before they
reach the earth, and at stich co, height Hutt
the 110100 then! passage and disintegration
becomes iumulible to us hem below.
1Ye find. further confirmation for the
belief that both of Those phenomena have
the same source in the well established fact,
proved in many instances, thnt tho direction
of the meteorites corresponds to that of
shooting stars observed at the same titne,
and points to a common point of radiation,
The detonations accompanying the fall of a
meteorite have three distinct 01411000 2 TI10
WhiBBillg 18 00118011 by its. repid passage
through the air ; the crackling, by the com-
bustion of the mateilals compositig It ; and
the thundering, by columns of air rushing
into the vacuum which it lottvea behind.
SIR JOHN'S INFANCY.
His Vim (Ye:aerie:a Met- inosigention et
ate re mity le 4%81144111.
1?.. 13. Biggar, who is about, publishing
laimt complete and coutprehensive life of
Sir dohn .Macdonahl, Ions kindly plueed in
Lew "muds of the (01110 Of 1115 all 1.141141181
0116010, from whieh the hdlowing is taken
Of his (Sir John's,/ infancy there is little
that can he gathered ott the premed, moment
worthy of note. If co lett] u brother William,
born some years befctre e little more than
a year before .1 01311 Alexander came loto the
world, a eister, itrgaret, W08 born, 'The
last named WAS de81 111011 ID beeorne the wife
of Professor Willianmen, of Queen's Lini•
versity, Kingston. Later another brother
and sister were born, hot this brother,
1/0011tif111 I/11 le Child, died at the age of six,
shortly after the eumilgration of the family
to Canada, and little Johnuy W(111 left, to be
his mother's only boy. He watt noted for
having u, toright eye, 0 lively 1111011101' 141111 11.
head of curly brown hair, which darkened
into black as he grew up, His politicel or,
at least, his speeelonteking career begun at
(Ilasgow at the early age of four. One (11437,
while some relations with their children 0,
were visiting the house, the little ones were
locked up in a room to make a day of it. ,
Among the perfrormances of the day W/10 It
MAIDEN NI.P.F.3'11 11‘" .1011 SY,
which had the effect of bringing down the
house tu an unexpected way, The child had
mounted a table awl begun to innke a 0
speech. -What he lacked in lampage he 0
made up in vehemence of gestienhaion, le
in the midst of the peroration he wee per- ,
fuming with his arms tool legs a noise wee le
lamed outside, mid in the alarm lie whirled :
himself off the 1 able and streak his forehead
upon a chair. The inei,1111 1 " Iwought t
down the honee" in conAdernoie alarm, and
Johnity /01111I1 TO have received ik NM ere,
out, a slight scar finin which lie bore to hie o
A PRISON POR WOMEN IN VENIOE, BLIND DEATH.
How 1:10 /re male Criminals Are Managed
FO'W SNIP IVA of Cheri ly,
In an English magazine the Bev. Alex,
Roberteou publiehes ine011111 of IL 111'18011
W0111C11 111 Vevice, whieh he re..e1,11),
visited, and about which hardly nnything
leis ever been wraten. It stanebt on the
fleweey and healthy Guidecu which
le Reiterated from the rest of the eity of
Yenice by a broad arm of the lagoon. Tho
visitor was taken by a lay Slider to the
prison matron, wbo has been in the service
tor adaptive years, and who said that
eighteen Salters managed the whole estab.
lishment, keeping 111 order, teaching, and
maintaining et dally labor 250 female crim-
inate, a large proportion of whom had been 1
guilty of infaealeide. The 1111044M oonducte-
ed the visitor neer the establishment, and
xplainedit11111141104413111 (int. In t he early morn- ;
ng the prisonere go to the recroution court I
to gel, tee fresh air, after ,vhich they attend
religious service, and then take Ineakfitat.
flay are largely 0111ployed at lace work and
111 making sonde, shawls, and deems, in
VI11011 they display great skill, and for '
videlt they are mud a. A1111111 daily wage.
Moat of the prisoner% were young, their ages
oarying Mom. 1 7 to 2.1, and all of them look-
ed well, and took an interest in their work.
The workshops, or schoolroome, us they are
iOled, are big, clean, and airy. ln one of
hem H011110 of the prisoners were working
nibrehlet.y 1 in another some were knieting
r doing conritesowing; in another 001110 were
vinding silk for the lace makers or weaving
loth for the inmetes' garments. The kit.
hen opens into a court, beyond which is a
garden. The matron, pointing to the head
ook, said " She 114 iinprisoned for life for
ho 1111111101' of her husband,"
The whole of the 250 eriminals take their
Deals together 111 a lame pillared hall, The
weakfuse is of oolree, with bread and meat ;
he dinner of soup and bread, wall wine for
he hard WOrkers, and the supine' of vegeta-
tes, (milt, bread, and cheese. On Sundays
toilfisicia all are allowed meat and (me
The dormitories are huge and well ventilat-
11, tend the beds elean and comfortable. I
he hospital wards patients are tenderly
mead. There are six solitary cells for
bstreperous prisoners, but they are hardly
ver used.
The Rev. elr, Robertson sitys that those
vho letive this Venetian prison do so, as a
010, improved in their whole being, to lead
fterward lives of honesty and usefulness.
n the prison they have a eeived instruceion,
ittve been taught a trade, and have been
mought under morn1 influences.
From the satodpeint of economy, the ad.
r,linistration of this prisou is exeellent.
etch pvisoner costs the Guvernment only
bout 20 cents per day. It is nutmeged on -
Moly by a few woollen Sisters of charity.
dying day. One of the witnesses of this 1
performance woo it little mod, who Iteing 1
0013, ten years his settior, W11.0 00011 10 be le
intimately associated with him, and was to 1,
carry him in her anus aboet the deck of 01101
vessel t hat breight him to Canada i e
Moved by reports of thesaccess tor friends
and fellow countrynien Canto:in, and ills- 111
appointed in his cainer at home, tbe leeTs
father decided et length hi 1 8211 to emifintte
to the great western continent, where he
would have opportunities of becoming all
successf01 merchant or a, land owner on 11 r
scale he could never clream of becoming ott a
• • e • 1 , I
So at length. about the first week in .April, 1
1 820, Hugh Macdonald, With his Wife told I
family, inelnding his old mother, then
seventy -live years of ago, end eome of his 1
wife's relearn's, gathered their belongings
to,ether and Invaded the
A Storm On The Rideau.
The !north wind hottest eeross the lodee,
And darkness aloud*: the facie of
The deep•toned waves, with thunders shake
'1'110 rocky shores awl gentle Minks.
Lilco demons dark with evil hearts,
'the clouds tly, lowering o'er the sky
The moon, rimmed anon reveals
Her silvery light, then quick departs.
Low, eldritch mutterings front the gtoole,
Pursue tee whistling. eager winds,
And seonts to add to tutture's (loom
Another link In ltorror's 01111111.
Fast, fit:at:he storm gathering now,
A Sol:0am darknese robes the night;
'Phe whitening surf like coiling snakes,
len folds the !Moro In dreadful might
Preto far off bine the winged winds,
Are reinforced from 111L1111.0'S 1101,
AIM, heroine 'molest. the dismal night
They shriek their vengennee and their
might.
. . . . , .
But lo 1 the pecteortil morn le near,
The smiting moon her radiance shows
And, sighing eke a feetful child
tre u waves recede and quells my fear.
,
The morning en might thrusts the night
A' (10\11 1110 1111/V111g 0117P0 of 111110
'P110 1»'00:10. 110W Q1111101' drifts the t
A.' though Um whispering boughs of pine,
D. liereelf,
Rideau Lakes, Jet I tithe 'fli
Eve was the firse parson in tho wave.
paper business at least she was ren Arl.
solicitor when she wanted the old mail to try
the apple.
Father—. ler, McClure 0001118 to bo a very
haelligent, well-read man, Non-- •" Non.
sense, governor 1 I talked with him at
dinner yesterday suit he does not knoW
thing about baseball."
811 " E.071.7. OF 11001SIN0 31A 14.H1R
we had almost said the good ship—she
lied been good when she sailed to the East
Indtes, but 11ow ehe was utterly unsem
worthy, and the following year, while
bringing out to Canada a cargo of six hun.
dred immigrants, she went down with all on
hoard. The present voyage she WILS 10
complete safely—though not witheut acci-
dent—and never did this old East Indian I
bring to the marts of Englami ie all het
sailings freight like that ihe took up the
Gulf of St. Lewronce on ehis voynge, for
among her passeogers was a child who WW1 "
tn be in one sense the builder of a natatio—
n, people whose loll state -ire no man yet may
outlive These poor but stroneentincled and
strongolimbed immigrants probably little
eonenved then how deeply they were to int -
press their national cheracteristics upon
A Bun 's ,iidventorin.
1\ were hunting among the Black Hills
moon tater the first ruall of lonnesteaders ottul
epeculatore in that diveetion, and one clay I
left eurnp my own hook end wandeved
away fer Rune or lour reflex. eta I stood
resting beside a tree a deer broke 'weer in
front of 1110 0.1111 only pisted.ehol away. It
W1L8 It fine buck, and he walked ieto thee/ma
as cool and unconcerned as if no one bad
ever thirsted for his life.
I ought to have dtnemml him dead that
distance, hut he fell at Illy fire 10 get up and
limp away, wool knowing him to le tnortally
wounded I followed on after. The ground
was very rough and covered wi cedar thick.
cote, and beieg it bit excited I pushed ahead
as feet as possible and paid little heed
to what wan node). foot, Of a Redden I
101111,1 tnyotalf falling, and OS went down I
dropped my gun to eluteli at the branchee.
1 wen.. clown tell on twelve feet 0001. 1.00104,
811'llek 011 my feet, and then plunged forward
and brought up beeide a big detached reek
with a smaSh severe enough to have !Oiled
one outrieht. I did break two ribs and
terriloly bruise my hip, and feinted dead
14W113' With the pain.
11 hen I came to I was lyinoe 011 Illy riglot
side, facing the jumble of roeke over which
1 had fallen,and I realized la once that I was
Melly hurt. Just how badly I lie.i totted to
find out, remembering :Attu WIUS miles from
cemp and mould expeet no help. 1 lay quiet
hoping the palm evotdd 130011111. uway,
when 1 got Huh a 011001 as nearly put my
wits to sleep agent. Almost in front of me
and ,mly about 21 feet ttway WI/8 the mouth
of a den in the face of the cliff, and out of
this den stedkeol the largest, panther I had
ever seen. He mewl snialleg the air and
looking lull at me, and wheu I realieed how
helpless I was to even utter a moll for aid
things tented dark awl allured lost con.
soieusness.
The wind 100 lolowing pretty freely, and,
luckily for me, it blew towards Inc. At
first this was not of the slightest importance
to my mind, ne the beast could reach me
with one spring, but I soon had reagon to
conclude that he WOO EL queer
turned to the left and trotted along over the
ground a distance of about fifty feet. Then
fl0 wheeled and passed. doe den Rigout the
same distance. When he had gone over his
beat two or three times I discovereti what
was the matter. As he came towards rne
the sun shone full in him face, and I saw that
he was stone blind. There was a white film
over each eye, and he would not have seen a
tree in his path.
A blind panther out for exercise—blind
denth trotting along in front of a man so
helpless that he could not have made his
voice heard twenty feet away 1
You have seen the 'meat oonfined a
cage—Ills limbs stiffened, his teeth broken
teed his savege nature toned down by lin-
AN ESSAY ON PLIES.
time tor the Characterist les oF the Insect
Which Defies Mau
The fly has some advantage over the 111011.
Tor instance, he has a potir of double com.
pound eyes, aucl with thein he can see in
eny direction or in all directions at onee
either, t for an instant turning his head.
These eyes have 4,000 distinct filets, and
111 of them have direct communication with
he Main, so that if a man comes along on
one side of him and It lump of seger on the
other, he will be able to watch both of them
tod. stay for the sugar eo long as it is safe
on account of the Mall.
When Ile sees he can get one and dodge
the other, thnt is exactly what he does, end
le does not have to twist his neck in two
the young Canttdian nation. better
class of Hiethland Sootehmen having set the
example of emigration in times proot it was
followedin these years by the poorest who
could get awity, and various means were
Relented to help each other off. One plan
W114.1 10 start a subscription paper in a dis-
trict and collerst money enough to send out
a quota of friends, -who might, afterward
from their 110W 1101100 assist those loft be-
hind, lnsteeel of going to the populous
Lowlandports. where, at times, owing to
the stet° of public opinion, there were
trying to keep track of the opposite object.
The fly is partietilar about the air he
breathes. He hasn't a very big month and
his lungs ere small in proportion to his body,
bat he is pertiottlar what he pots into them.
Good green tea, such as the best of the
grocers sell for a do Bay steeped pretty strong
and well sweetened, will kill ai many flies
as drink of it And they will drink of it as
readily as a " ceon " will play crape. It is
estimated that a pound of tea and two
pounds of sugar will rid a room of Hies With -
111 'two days—that is, a small room.
Flies are voracious eaters. They do not
care BO M11011 what they eat as when they
eat ie. They are particular about regular
meals. They do not eat long at time nor
much at a tone, but they eat often.
Careful observers have stated that a cern-
moe hoUse fly will eat 4'2,200 square meals
in twelve houvs. One. female lly will pro.
duce 20,000 young ones in IL single day, and
they will develop so ri.tpielly as to increase
two hundred fold in weight in twenty-four
hours.
Scientists have never been able to tell how
fiy walks on' the ceiling, or, rather, they
1 avo nevor been able to agree about it. All
f them have told, but no two are alike in
their explanation. 801110 say the flYo has an
air pump in each ef its numerous feet, ana
that he walks up there by oreoeting VIL011010
ill his instep and allowing the pressure of the
air to sustain him
Others think he wort ies a, minute bottle of
mucilage emend with him and lubricates his
hoofs with it, so that be can stay as long as
he wants to on any surface, no matter what
the attrection of gravity may have to say
about it. Between these two schools of
thought you 111143' take your ehoice.
11IFFICCLT/B8 11.1ilLOWN /0 811 EU< Wo10,
they would engage a vessel which would be
quietly brought into the solitary bays er
arms of the sea which here presented their
waters utmost everywhere close to the doom
of the cottages, and having taken the pas-
sengers aboard, sail qnietly away, Havhig
arrived on the other side of the ocean, as
quietly and unobserved did they land their
invaluable freight, " spreading:broadmtst the
seed of a noble race over immense and fruit-
ful lands." In seine easee 171011 contributed
part of their wages or income till a fund was
gathered to send a party.out, and when
enough was thus raised they would east lots
astowhich of thenumbershould go. (Meech
were treaty of the throe hundred on board
the "Earl of Buolcin lianIshire," His friend,
Ma Munro, the elc er, lutd come (10W11 t 1
Bonat Bridge to say good -by to Hugh Mac -1
clonald, 111111 so itnpressed weve the children
with parting from friends ancl crossing the
mean that when John A, Macdonald and
John Munro met thirtynine years after.
wards in the city of Quebec they wore both
able to call to mind the parting at Boner
Bridge. And so while P110111a8 PPingle and
lois parey were making an equelly memorable
voyage to foetid their Scotch settlotnents
the Cape Colony, these hardy Highlanders
Were sailing to Canada, some of thorn to
make an endering mtnio upon the pages of
her history. Indeed, the p111.e.minded- poet
of South Africa had
AtatEaDF FRIENDS IN caNADA,
and some were, perhapa, ott this very elan,
for it is to these he refers in hos elegy,
written afterwards on a tombstone ae Dry -
burgh Abbey :
"0 - • 111/1110 1111111E1 11i8 Vellthr011t1 mon
Are setatored widem; sonic me in the gvave;
Some eurvive 13ritrd n 1 eeettn's wavo
Muth wafted many to far western woods
Laved by Oldo's and OntarhOe floods:
Another band beneath the sou thorn sale.
Have homes where Raflir mountains
• ,
A ncl tinight Menvetyannee willowy vale
The simple strains of Scottish filleviet:
About, the middie of May the " Earl of
Bookinghtemeldin" Was sailing up the Golf
of St. LOW1.01100 Whell it boat was sighted,
the master of which proved to be .te Fretith
Canadian, who came on hoard and announced
himself fes n, pilot, Tho ship WIt0 given into
hie hands, bet tet night, while the pe,seengers,
after a pleasant clay of vietving the grand
mountains of the nortlo shore, were dancing
is,way the tune on deck, the pilot rim the
vessel aground on it sand bank , Tho pram.
gars wore in terror, butt little Johney Mac-
donald slept peacefully on in a cabin below.
Hero the old ship lay, pounded by tho
waves for hours, several vessels paesiug the
while and 1.0kin.g no notice of their signale,
bill ab last rt brig from Dublin 0.01710 adoolg
nod helped her off the sand bank, A length,
without Nether accident, ou the 2014 May,
the party landed at Quebec,
Gernmely pnblishets the grenteet norther
of periodicals in all ntropoo ft, ,prodbees
0,1300 pariodioals, of which 800 aro dailiee
Water and Wind.
The latest news from Germany shoeios that
a definite entrant has been mode for trans.
milting power electrically from the falls of
the Lauffen to Frankforton.theMeln,
distance of 1 12 miles, for service at the
electrical exhibition which is to be opened
at that place on Jone the At, Hartford,
Coon., a similar transmission of p0W01' is
successfully merle for a, distotnee of 22 miles
for lighting purposes. In several places in
both -Europe and Atnerica, electric power is
transinated distances of five to ten miles,
Coronada Beach, Cat, a Company MIS
invented and successfully applied an op.
paratus to a section of tho surface of tile
sea, by evInch as ceaseless mot= le eonvert-
ed into electric energy ; and this is trans.
mitted thvough a cable to the point whore
:it is needed for the esual service of an
1 electric current.
1 Thus not only is the electricity rendering
mottilable a multitude of water ftdls streatio
1 and tide which have hitherto been useless
for mechanical pommies, bat wind power on
'every hill top C011 bo gathered in by the
'blades of the windmill, and theme convoyed
to the more aceeesible plain, It, will net be
long ere feel of all kinds may be to a largo
mama superseded 111 dwellings, and its nses
performed in it better 1110411101' by tee 11051,
110111101101d BOrvart—oleetrielt y. Thus, pos.
sibly, we may be saved feem the ityraney of
the coal mino and tho wood pile, mid Moon
their final exhaicitioto, tho utilizatioe of
no exhamtlese power which everywhere
pervades the universe.
pt•isoinnent and the sight rof humanity until
he will scarcely sot rl the cane thrust in
to stir him up. This one was lithe, supple,
vigilant— ft combinatoeo emength and
fiercenees not possessed 01.00 the tiger.
Disease or accident had blinded him, but
he possessed every other power Nature gives
to the dreaded beast. Instinct tenth him
the lay of tbe ground. He may have passed
over it a thousand times.
Just eo far to the east.
Just so far tn the west.
A large storm is passed to the right.
A Large tree is passed to the left.
Down hy a ledge of rocks and wheel about,
east to where the thicket begins, and then
wheel tognin.
Grace—litheness—strength—death The
lower jaW 10 down, and I have a fine view
of the fangs which would rend the hide of 14
horse. At every footstep the terrible
chews clutch and grate—claws which would
sink. to the bone of a man's leg and then
strip the quivering fleet' olT in bloody Mag.
menta.
There is it motions fascination in wetching
the beast as he takes his promenade, I for-
get 1113, pains as I rejoice over his blindness.
Had he been possessed of his erstwhile vision
—aye, could he but see ever so little, 'he
would spring .upon me, fasteo those long,
yellow fangs into my throat, and in thirty
seconds all would be over. Bat he is blind.
He enamoe discover 1113' presence if I remain
quiet.
Heaven save me !
A shift of the wind, which here circles and
eddies about, bas carried him the scent. He
stops midway in hie promenade, rears up
and sniffs the air with savage growl, and my
heart beate so that it seems as if he must
surely hear it and follow the sound until
his hot breath is on my face 1
Suiff ! Sniff ! Growl To the right—to
the left—straight ahead I
There ! He's lost it as the wind eddies
about, and 110W he stands stack still and
utters a continuous growl its he waits to
catch it again, No, uot like 0 statue. His
long tail sweeps the ground in a half circle
and his ears work swiftly back and forth.
Blind death waiting to rend and bite and
tear and kill 1
The scent again 1 He rears up, whirls
about tloree or four times es if on a pivot,
and now he points full at me ! A tapeline
fifteen feet long would dover the ground
between us—between where I lie helpless and
he crouches down for a spring. If those
sightless eyes could be restored, how they
would glint alai glitter and blaze 1
" Growl ! Growl 1 U.r r -ter -r I"
There's something in the sound whioh
chills my bleed—a inenece—a warning of
what is to 00010 which bids me shut my eyes
and utter a last prayer. Why does lie hes!.
tate 7 What delays his spring ? Ah the
wiod has shifted egain, 1411(1 110W his infirmity
reasons against his natund ferocity. He 1108
been blina for a year or two perhaps. He
has never left the oteve except to 1110'0 up
and down over that one route. If he leaves
it, —if 110 springs at me—he may fall over a,
olifl for all he teen tell. loriul the scent held
a moment longer he might have attacked, but
now the beeeze reshens up, the leaves around
hint are blown hither 011(1 yon, and seeming
to axone that lois quarry had patsed on and
was out of his reach. Blind Death crept
back tn ills cave mid entered a with mutter.
liege of savage disappointment.
Well for ono that inti; mete was not at home
and he did not, retttrn until I had managed
to date myself out. of the neighborhood and
secure assistance to reach the camp. Heel
there Immo eyes to seeme Blind Death miseht
now be Ilingtpg my' eracked and whitened
bones about Ins :lark don a,s he rolls himself
in sportive mood.
A piece of muslin fresh from ehe bolt is
more attractive over pakkage of butter
than molten 01 cloth with one or teed button-
holes in it.
Misery travels on a free pass ; happinese
always has to pity for a ticket.
The Imperial government, W113benten last
week Mx an amendment to ite fernery bill,
Mr. Sydney Buxton, a Liberal, moved that
children under eleven years of sue should
be prohibited from working in factoriee.
This WM carried. by Il02, to 18(1. The next
dny the government anuouneed that it au:
ceptetl the amendment. A motion was then
tondo to limit the age of the children to M.
This MI40 voted down, It is Witted
that even the elevemyeer.old limita-
tion greets lfif1,000 children. l?arlia.
men L could well have split the difference
YOUNG FOLKS
A STRANGE GUARDIAN%
True siotr,
" When we first, moved into the moiler"
front New York," said Mee. M. 17 eyek.
were all as happy am we (amid bo, ,Atlifte
1110 110V01,00fLE1111g r00.1' of the city, every.
etilldicdgreir 1T:el 014:11tieekiliv'siittlY 31viiutindeallgdlittlel
being able to run ahem 118 111 0011 110 thql
pleased, without having to get out of thik
way of 14 wagon or a street eer eygey
1)111:'1B111.01; woe soon found out that ettite pars,
thee (Acmes was not without its own troubleee
after all. The first two or three clnys waft
wet and stormy, and we had to keep ull Idte,
windows shut ; but by.ttial..by it eama tint
fine and. Might again, and WO 1104 jam
throw every rhing open, and were eajnying
the freeh air and ennehine, Wi/T11 I spied be
huge wasp flying mound the parlor,
" When I looked again there were, Mr,
instead of one ; and eve:: w'hile W1/8 watolie
ing them, in fiew a third throagh the deer.
way, and two more had a race for ' fug, hie
at the open window.
" Presently May came ill cfyillg,
been Stallg 011 the neck by DDe 01' these
neighbors of 1111C8 2 and HeD, W110 11011 stitrt.
ed off on 0,0 expeolitioe 0.11,1,11, the boundletra
prairie ' , the twomere gloss mead eve at,
the back of our house) in purtmit of a f oronts.
Ems tribe of imaginary Indium:, crane bath a.
little later on in the day with a note almost
as big as his flet, and a face not ttnito 00
heroic as the ' Terror of the Wild West 4
ought 10 have 111111 ID be in eoret keeping
with his chatacter.
" It W1.1. plain enough thut there nmet
a wasp's nest somewhere 'tear the bonen&
and it, wasn't long before we found i mita
But even When we did, '11 e were 11 0 bettiffi
off than befare, for our eneutien bad intr011 eh,
ed themselves in n. most formidably sti one
position right in the hollow of a high banIce,
which overhung in such a way that we couls1
not get at thein with boiling water or any,.
thing of that sort. We had beard ,of eouretee,
about blowing them op with gimpowdeee
but 110110 of us had the least idea how to sett
about it, and as for digging up the nest,
none of 178 felt particullotly inclined to tele
that, So what was to be done? :
" I was just making up my mind to Wee
a man to blow up the nest or dig ie mote
when this domestic tragedy of 011110 0101 an.
ly took a 110W turn.
•" Mother ! " cried 8011, quite excitedly,.
one morning, as he mune 01110 breakfast,
"what do you think? I saw a wild beest
la.et night..1 (Ben's head was so full of
wild.beast stories just then that he expected
to meet a panther or a grizzly.beato in every
eld.) It was sitting on the fence, tend
cooked just like 11 cat with a big Mabee
taiii; I naturally conoleded that, this monster -
looked liken, cat because it wax one, and
thought no more about it.
" But the next night Master Ben's
beast' came again, and this time .1 511W it
quite plainly myself, sitting on the fenoe
jest as he had said. It didn't look to me
like a cat—rather more like a squirrel, ust
I thought ; and yet when I looked again it.
wesn't quite like a squirrel either, and I wen
quite puzzled to Make ont what it could
be.
" Blot I had something else to think a
next morning ; for jest before breeklase X
heard Ben outside hurrehing as if it was the
Fotath of July, and in a moment he mine
bursting in, waving his cap and shouting
" Hurrah, mother ! dona give up the ship,
The wasps are pont, I'
"It seemed far too good news eo be true
but it teas true, for all that. A hole bad
been dug in the bank, and the nest seemed
to have been clawed out and seattereol all
over the place ; and of all thetre troubleeom.
visitors of ours there was not one to .110
800`11' There was something else, however,
that was almost as bad viz., the most
frightful smell I had ever 01011 (as our Male
help used to say), which madame cough fit,
to kill myself.
" 'Never mind,' cried Ben, gleefully
we've goo rid of the wasps, anyhow.'
" It was that cat with the big tail that,
did it,wasn't it, mother?" said May.who had.
taken a great interest in Ben's wildbeast,
" The question WILS answered by a loud
hoarse, laugh from behind ; and, looking
ronnd, we saw a big, jollyelooking fanner,
who had come up just in time to hear part
of our talk.
." I guess•the yet whet did that job ain't
just the sort I'd like to hov around my
place,' mad he, with a grin. Folks mau
call it a cat 110W, but when I W1LB at seboa
we used te call it Ft Aitnk, I teckon. He's
fixed the job for you, anyhow, for tow that,
the nest's fairly busted up, them wasps '11.
never come back to it. Well, they eay
every thing has its use, and sure enough it
seems 01101 oven a skunk kill hev its use too k
but 1 guess Ws the first time: its ever
knowed one o' the varmints de agood turn
for any one.' "—Harper's Yototli Peopk‘
England and kortugal.
Tho treaty which has just been concluded
between England and Portugal, whose die.
plan concerning their African possessions
have occupied so bap a share, of pablie
tention driving the pest few months, providee
that goods in transit through PortugueSe
territory between the east coast 141111 the
British sphere shall not for tW011tplive years
be subjected to duty above 3 per mint, 1 that,
England shall hare the option within Jive
years of claiming freedom of transit en the -
payment of a sum capitalizing the annual.
duties for the remainder of the period,
at the rate of i3,30,000 yearly 1 and
that ele Zambesi and Shiro rivers shall be:
open to free navigation by all nations,
Moreever it, provides absolute freedom ot
passage to n,11 merchandise between the Bri-
tish sphere 1 /I 1 Punseve bay, Touching the,
cptestioa of boundarees England concedes to,
Portegal re solid Meek of 50,000square milts ;
of South African territory north of tho Zane,
best, and keeps for herself a, small strip af
Alariettland. 'Whether the mother eountry
has the best of the bargain remains to be •
seen. His worth noting, loowever that theo
teeritory ciontains valuable gold 'fields in.
which miners are 110W 01, worn, and that the..
territory which Portugal receives is so low.
end unhealthy that no En tope:ens, not, eVent
the Portuguese themselves, can endive the
elimate. 10 is not unlikely therefore, that, re
square mile of the gold region mayprove to be
worth es 111 1101 AS fifty thousand where them
is none,
and 'made the limit twelve instead of eleven. 4
Tbe South will shortly supply the onttn.,
try'S IUMber demand, Titer° are 73,500 SAW.
mills running there already.
As the mambo slowly descended betwene:
tho acts he said " I don't, sec why they
call that drop curtain. It don't drop, le
just rolls dowm"
" Alt, yes I" she returned, bet, you se,
Wee signal for the mes to go ont, and talen
a, drop of somethin ."